Found 2 collections related to Bryant family

Members of the Bryant family were descended from Peter Bryant (1767-1820) and Sarah Snell Bryant (1766-1847) of Cummington, Mass., and included the poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) and his brothers, who settled in or around Princeton, Ill. The brothers were primarily involved in farming in the area. The collection consists of correspondence and other personal papers of various members of the Bryant family. Correspondence is with family members, friends and business associates and concerns pioneering and farming in Illinois and Kansas, Cullen Bryant's life as a West Point cadet, family affairs and finances, and discussions of politics, particularly slavery and the Civil War. Also, diaries, manuscript poems of John H. Bryant, land papers, photographs and other family memorabilia, and printed matter. less

Charles W. Bryant was a druggist of Granville, Ohio and one of the descendents of the poet William Cullen Bryant. The Charles W. Bryant genealogical research papers contain correspondence with family members, genealogical research notes, family trees, clippings, photographs, and a bound notebook of family history with an introduction by Bryant about his research on the Bryant, Halbert, McCollister, Hatherly, Gray and Fitch families. His correspondence, 1872-1888, often contains surveys he sent to determine family relationships. less